2025 GA Legislative Scorecard

HB428 codifies a right for individuals to obtain in vitro fertilization.

The Senate passed HB428 on March 27, 2025, by a vote of 53 to 1. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies involve life-destroying practices through which the vast majority of embryos conceived outside the womb are aborted or indefinitely frozen, resulting in the killing or cryo-incarceration of millions of preborn children. Yet, no person has a right to take the “life or limb” of a preborn child. As the care of human life — not its destruction — is the greatest responsibility of government, lawmakers in Georgia ought to forbid all methods of abortion and cryo-orphaning entirely, upholding the sanctity of life for every person. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

HB111 reduces the state income tax rate to 5.19% in 2025 and to 4.99% by 2027.

The Senate passed HB111 on March 20, 2025, by a vote of 30 to 23. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the income tax is an immoral, anti-constitutional act of government-imposed theft that takes from people the wages they have rightfully earned. It turns citizens into slaves. A person’s property, including their income, belongs solely to them—not the state. The Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment expressly affirm that “No State” shall unjustly “deprive any person” of “liberty, or property.” Georgia must reject tyrannical, big government by protecting the “pursuit of Happiness," particularly the right to enjoy the fruit of one’s own labor.

SB163 would increase the civil penalty from $100 to $50,000 for unauthorized acts related to the local regulation of weapons.

The Senate passed SB163 on March 6, 2025, by a vote of 33 to 23. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill would enhance the ability of law-citizens to sue counties and municipalities that enact unconstitutional gun control ordinances, helping to restore their Second Amendment-protected rights. The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment expressly declares that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” In addition, the Georgia Constitution grants the General Assembly the power to preempt the provisions of any local ordinance that is in direct conflict with state law.

SB29 requires the collection of a DNA sample from any person who is “arrested” for, not just charged with or convicted of, a “serious violent felony.”

The Senate passed SB29 on March 3, 2025, by a vote of 44 to 11. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill would unconstitutionally subject even innocent persons to mandatory DNA collection. In America, “due process of law” requires that a person be presumed innocent “until proven guilty.” Rather than provide for such a dangerous expansion of the statewide DNA database system and the threat it poses to justice and individual privacy, Georgia lawmakers should support, not undermine, the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

SR23 would apply to Congress to “call a convention” under Article V of the U.S. Constitution for the purpose of proposing an amendment to set term limits on members of Congress.

The Senate adopted SR23 on February 20, 2025, by a vote of 34 to 18. We have assigned pluses to the nays because term limits conflict with the right of the American people to choose their representatives. Moreover, efforts to “call a convention” under Article V must be resisted. A constitutional convention (Con-Con) would have the ability to make major changes to the U.S. Constitution, or even completely rewrite it. Instead of failing to uphold their oath of office and risking the danger of a “runaway convention,” which could act as a “trojan horse” to destroy many of the Constitution’s limitations on government power, state legislators should act to immediately nullify all unconstitutional federal laws. Whenever the federal government assumes undelegated powers, in violation of the 10th Amendment, nullification of such lawless acts is the proper remedy. Article V was designed to correct potential errors or defects in the Constitution, not to “misconstrue or abuse its powers.” We must use Article VI to enforce the Constitution, rather than use Article V to alter or abolish it.